Apigee vs Axway AMPLIFY API Management vs Kong Gateway Enterprise comparison

Google and Axway are both solutions in the API Management category. Google is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.3, while Axway is ranked #32. Google holds a 12.8% mindshare in APIM, compared to Axway’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 81% of Axway users who would recommend it.

Apigee

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92% willing to recommend

Axway AMPLIFY API Management

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81% willing to recommend

Kong Gateway Enterprise

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92% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Apigee, Axway AMPLIFY API Management, and Kong Gateway Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Apigee is 12.8%, down from 15.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Axway AMPLIFY API Management is 1.6%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Kong Gateway Enterprise is 7.2%, up from 5.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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ShawkyFoda

Senior Consultant at Goverment

Provides high visibility and control with good traffic monitoring

Analytics is one of the areas needing enhancement, specifically more visibility and control over traffic to improve capacity management and high availability. The replication process between Master and Slave for disaster recovery takes too long. Dependencies on analytics impact the performance of the user interface, which should be separate. The complex setup process on-premises, especially with multi-node installations, could also be improved. Additional control in product declarations, based on operations like POST and GET, is needed.

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Sudhanshu Singh

Associate Software Engineer at Tech Mahindra Limited

We get stability, scalability, and security

Axway provides good documentation that newcomers can easily follow, but I believe the initial setup would be tough for someone new. Experienced employees know where everything is and how to do their job, so it would be difficult for a new hire to get up to speed. For an experienced person, I give the initial setup a ten out of ten. Deployment can be considered a hundred lines of code and some a thousand lines. For a simple deployment, it takes 10-15 seconds. And if the environment connectivity is good enough to respond and there is some heavy code that is being deployed, it takes around 30-60 seconds max, if we are referring to the cloud, where the connectivity for the long duration of the calls is there. The total deployment time is one minute to finish up. From the industrial point of view, Europe has a major chunk of users followed by, the US, and then Australia or the Asia-Pacific region.

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ASHOK YADAV

Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Offers OIDC, Rate Limiting, Lambda functions but lacks software upgrades

Upgrading Kong Gateway Enterprise should be more sophisticated and innovative. The main issue is with the update process. Our DevOps and admin teams need to update multiple files, which is cumbersome. For instance, in cases where Palantir countries are involved, they have to update many files, which is not ideal. However, for other tasks like configuring the message routing and services and handling all the configurations, the process is acceptable. The software version upgrade process should be improved. Additionally, the DevOps portal should be integrated more natively. There are a few other areas for improvement, such as implementing automatic load balancing. The status of the office team, whether it is up or down, should be checked at the API gateway level to facilitate load balancing.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Easy interface to monetize and deliver APIs with very easy integration for third-party development environments/delivery."

"It has a very efficient logging system which is easy to maintain."

"The following features are most valuable: API Management, Analytics, Quota, and the Developer Portal."

"The stability of the solution is good. There aren't issues surrounding bugs or glitches. We don't find that it crashes or freezes. It's pretty reliable."

"Apigee provides good documentation."

"Apigee makes proxy management very simple."

"Anyone with basic knowledge can build an API."

"It is scalable."

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"We like the portal for documentation a lot."

"There's drag and drop functionality so that you do not need to have a senior expert developer to make use of the tool. You can get more of your staff trained up to be able to use it as it's not overly technical."

"The best feature of Axway Amplify API Management is its exceptional level of security, which is highly reassuring, coupled with its remarkable capacity to handle substantial volumes of data in impressively efficient turnaround times."

"The administration tool for this solution is good."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is security."

"This product is a ten when it comes to API management."

"The most valuable features are security enforcement and throttling."

"In general, API governance provides a better experience for providers."

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"There are a few features that I like about Kong when it comes to authentication and authorization. Specifically, being able to use Kong for role-based access control (RBAC), and then further being able to integrate the RBAC mechanism with our enterprise directory, was very useful."

"The most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise is its capability to integrate with various security tools."

"It offers a wide range of plugins that we leverage, including OIDC, Rate Limiting, Lambda functions, and more."

"In our buying companies' perspective, it was easier to use compared to other platforms. The markets were pretty familiar with the solutions."

"Based on my experience, I would definitely recommend Kong Gateway Enterprise to other people."

"The solution's technical support is good and fast in terms of responsiveness and problem-solving skills."

"The features I like include ease of operation and implementation in a cloud environment, the dashboarding features for API statistics, and the user-friendly developer portal."

"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."

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Cons

"I would like to see better integration and some architectural improvements in future releases of the solution."

"One feature they have to invest time into is the developer portal they use."

"Drag and drop of features would be more beneficial, rather than manually working on the configuration and updates."

"In terms of the functionalities of a typical API gateway, Apigee is actually doing its job, but when it involves integration with backend applications, which some gateways have, I don't believe it has this functionality. You have to do Java or do some other low-level coding before you are able to do the integration. Apigee has a lot of components, which means that management will be a bit difficult. It probably has ten different components, and all of these components leverage open-source utilities, such as NGINX. When those open-source vendors upgrade their utility, Apigee usually lags behind because they need to do a lot of tests and any required development in their own platform. They need to do rigorous testing to make sure that nothing breaks. Because of that, it takes them a while to upgrade whatever components have been upgraded by the open-source vendor that owns the utility. We've been chasing them for a particular upgrade for well over a year and a half, and they have not done that upgrade. It is creating a security risk for us as an enterprise, but that upgrade has not been done, even though the open-source vendor, the owner of the utility, has upgraded it a long time ago."

"Access restrictions can be improved."

"I'd like this solution to improve on releasing new features; I'd like it to be more frequent."

"It needs predictive analysis of consumption."

"The pricing of the solution could be improved upon. We'd like it if it was less costly."

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"The product shows a lack of maturity. The setup is difficult, the tech support and community are lacking, and it is not very stable."

"Sometimes we find bugs where certain calls are not returning all the data we need."

"In terms of customer service, the company needs to be easier to contact, and the support team needs to understand the situation and the product itself better."

"This solution does have some limitations regarding the deployment model."

"Areas of improvement include marketing and enhancing the data products area by using ETIs."

"It would be great if they have an asset report. It's hard to get support for that."

"The portal still has room for improvement."

"Team management capabilities could be improved."

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"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."

"There should be an easier way to integrate with other solutions, even though it's the same API solution layer. Comparability will be a good improvement."

"The tool needs improvement in UX."

"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."

"The main challenge, in my opinion, is the price. It's difficult to convince our management to approve the budget to purchase it from our vendor. There are no technical problems."

"The technical support team's response time needs to be improved."

"The open-source version of Kong does not support a dashboard, which would be very helpful."

"Kong Enterprise has decided not to support the web portal feature anymore, but I think that feature should stay in the on-premises solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is not suited for small companies. It's expensive."

"Its price is reasonable for the features they provide and the maturity of the platform."

"We have a contract for three years. I don't know the cost."

"In Latin America, Apigee is expensive. It's not for small businesses; it's more for big businesses."

"The iicense is subscription-based."

"The price of Apigee could be less expensive. The solution can be purchased monthly or annually."

"As most of the customers say, the tool is a bit expensive."

"My clients pay for a license."

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"The solution is expensive. When you acquire a license you have full access to the solution, unlike other competitors such as Apigee X, where there are fragmented licenses. Some licenses only allow access to certain features while others allow access to more features. Upon procuring this solution's license, you will have full access to the solution, allowing you to experiment with all of its features."

"Kong Enterprise's pricing is reasonable for our company size."

"The licensing is expensive."

"The product is reasonably priced because it goes by the SaaS model."

"There is a need to pay towards the licensing charges...In some areas, the functionalities are available free of charge."

"Kong Enterprise is cheaper than Apigee. I rate its pricing as four out of ten."

"I don't have any information on licensing costs currently."

"It's expensive in Thailand (10 million baht, in Thai currency)."

"There are many factors that influence the price of Kong Enterprise, such as scale, licenses, and usage."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

18%

Insurance Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

13%

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

How does Apigee differ from Azure API Management?

Apigee offers both cloud-based and on-prem options while Microsoft Azure API Management currently only offers a clou...

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Which is better - Apigee or Amazon API Gateway?

Amazon API Gateway is a platform that supports the creation and publication of API for web applications. The platform...

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What do you like most about Apigee?

We can customize the dashboard.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Axway AMPLIFY API Management?

The solution has a yearly subscription. The solution’s pricing is competitive. Axway makes a significant impression c...

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What needs improvement with Axway AMPLIFY API Management?

Axway's queuing messages could be enhanced.

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What is your primary use case for Axway AMPLIFY API Management?

We use the solution for ESB and B2B integration between the systems of our business.

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How does Kong Enterprise compare with Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager?

The Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager was designed with its users in mind. Though it is a reasonably complex piece of sof...

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What do you like most about Kong Enterprise?

The tool's feature that I find most beneficial is rate limiting. In our usage, especially in the financial sector, we...

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What needs improvement with Kong Enterprise?

More plugins for additional integrations would be helpful and openness for traditional development languages, such as...

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Comparisons

Microsoft Azure API Management vs Apigee

Compared 24% of the time

IBM API Connect vs Apigee

Compared 10% of the time

WSO2 API Manager vs Apigee

Compared 8% of the time

MuleSoft API Manager vs Apigee

Compared 7% of the time

TIBCO Cloud API Management vs Apigee

Compared 2% of the time

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Amazon API Gateway vs Axway AMPLIFY API Management

Compared 17% of the time

Microsoft Azure API Management vs Axway AMPLIFY API Management

Compared 14% of the time

MuleSoft API Manager vs Axway AMPLIFY API Management

Compared 7% of the time

IBM API Connect vs Axway AMPLIFY API Management

Compared 6% of the time

IBM DataPower Gateway vs Axway AMPLIFY API Management

Compared 5% of the time

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WSO2 API Manager vs Kong Gateway Enterprise

Compared 13% of the time

Microsoft Azure API Management vs Kong Gateway Enterprise

Compared 10% of the time

Kong Konnect vs Kong Gateway Enterprise

Compared 10% of the time

Apache APISIX vs Kong Gateway Enterprise

Compared 10% of the time

OpenLegacy vs Kong Gateway Enterprise

Compared 1% of the time

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Apigee

July 2025

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Axway AMPLIFY API Management

July 2025

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Kong Gateway Enterprise

July 2025

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Also Known As

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Vordel Application Gateway, Axway API Management Plus, Axway API Management, AMPLIFY API Management

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Overview

Apigee is a platform for developing and managing APIs. Apigee offers an interface for your core services by wrapping them with a proxy layer which is then accessed by other developers. With Apigee, you can design and build APIs and then securely share their services and data without exposing any code.

Because app developers make HTTP requests to an API proxy rather than directly to your services, your services are separated from the developers. All the developer needs to know is the URL of the API proxy endpoint, necessary query parameters, authorization credentials (if they exist), and the response data format.

The API proxy isolates the app developer from your backend service. Therefore, you are free to change the service implementation if the public API remains consistent. By maintaining a consistent frontend API, existing client apps will continue to work regardless of changes on the backend.

Key capabilities of the Apigee API management platform include:

Security: Protect APIs, messages, and backends with configurable policies such as OAuth, API key verification, XML/JSON threat protection, and access control.
API gateway: Secure and mediate the traffic between clients and backends, and between a company’s APIs and the developers who use the APIs.
Developer portal: Attract and engage application developers, enabling them to discover, explore, purchase, and test APIs and register to access and use the APIs.
API console: The console helps developers learn and work with APIs.
API lifecycle management: Manage the process of designing, developing, publishing, deploying, and versioning APIs.
Automated documentation: Automate the development of API documentation and software development kits.
Machine learning: Utilize machine learning and analytics to generate actionable insights and reports.

API monitoring: Apigee offers monitoring tools for API troubleshooting, security, and optimization.

Reviews from Real Users:

Apigee stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its rich developer portal, its advanced analytics, and its central monitoring system.

Carlos R., a software architect at Caja Los Andes writes, “The central monitoring feature is the most valuable. It also provides security for the APIs and high availability for our use cases. Apigee is the best product in the industry in comparison to other API management solutions. It helps in fast development, which is a top point. It also supports a lot of industry standards and has excellent documentation.”

An associate vice president at a tech services company notes, “The analytics function and the developer portal are the two valuable features of Apigee. The analytics part is very good, and the developer portal is quite rich in features. The authentication mechanisms are quite easily built into Apigee, which is something that most of the other products have also now started supporting.”

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Axway API Management Plus combines API lifecycle management, secure integration services, monitoring and analytics to help you innovate faster and heighten ecosystem engagement. It is part of the Axway AMPLIFY data integration and engagement platform, which also includes unified app development for mobile to provide a complete solution for rapid change and innovation.

Axway

Kong delivers a next generation API platform built for modern architectures. With a lightnight-fast, lightweight, and flexible core, Kong delivers sub-millisecond latency across all your services. Kong's is deployment-, vendor-, and pattern-agnostic, allowing you to run your services how you want, where you want, and with who you want - from baremetal to cloud, monolith to microservices, service mesh, and beyond.

Kong

Sample Customers

Adobe, advance.net, Amadeus, AT&T, Bechtel, Belly, Burberry, Chegg, Citrix, Dell, eBay, Equifax, GameStop, First Data, Globe, HCSC, Intralinks, Kao, Meredith, Mitchell, Orange, Pearson

Engie Group, Allianz

Cargill, Zillow, Ferrari, WeWork, Healthcare.gov, Yahoo! Japan, Giphy, SkyScanner

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